Call for papers

To foster dialogue towards a multidisciplinary approach to the development of conversational AI that can better serve diverse global audiences, we welcome submissions on a range of topics related to language ideologies and language rights in relation to conversational language technology and AI (e.g., chatbots, voice assistants, and multimodal conversational interfaces). 

We invite authors to submit original, unpublished work (long, short, and position papers). Each submission will be reviewed by 2–3 members of the Programme Committee. 

Possible topics may include: 

• Language ideologies in conversational AI

• Language rights in conversational AI

• Socio-cultural context in conversational AI

• Language inclusion in training data for enhancing inclusivity

• Incorporating non-verbal communication elements (gestures, emotions) in AI

• Sign language and multimodal conversational AI

• Audience design in conversational AI (tailoring systems to meet specific audiences’ needs and preferences)

• The sense of human agency and identity while interacting with conversational AI

• Addressing challenges and opportunities of conversational AI development (case studies, models of effective collaborations)

• Linguistic discrimination in conversational AI

• Perspectives of communities affected by conversational AI systems: needs, concerns, and expectations

• Workshop paper due: December 18, 2023  December 22, 2023 (AoE) - CLOSED

• Direct Submission deadline (pre-reviewed ARR and main conference): January 17, 2024 January 20, 2024 (AoE)

• Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2024, January 25, 2024

• Camera-ready papers due: January 30, 2024

• Workshop dates: March 21–22, 2024

Participants should format their submissions using the EACL template, available for LaTeX/Overleaf and Word here. All submissions must be in PDF format. All accepted papers (long, short, and position papers) will be included in the workshop proceedings. The submissions will be managed through the SoftConf platform: https://softconf.com/eacl2024/TEICAI-2024/. The proceedings will be published in the ACL anthology.

Double-blind review

All submissions must not contain any information that may disclose the authors' names or affiliations. References to the author's own previous work should not be masked but formatted in the third-person; for example, a good reference "as Smith (2002) demonstrated" instead of a bad reference "as we demonstrated (masked for review)". Acknowledgments must be omitted for the blind review but can be added upon acceptance.

Types of submissions and policies

We invite authors to submit their work in one of the following formats:

• Long paper: unpublished, original work describing completed, original research on the topics of interest. Long papers must be between 6 and 8 pages.

• Short paper: unpublished original work describing ongoing research that generated preliminary insights, negative results, new datasets, and similar. Short papers must not exceed 4 pages.

• Position paper: unpublished original work describing an opinion, arguing for new research paradigms and theories, proposing new ideas and policies, and clearly stating a position with regard to the topics of interest of the workshop. Position papers must be between 4 and 6 pages.

Long 'References' sections: for all three submission types, if the 'References' section needs more space, the authors can use up to one page of additional space on which only references can be placed. The 'References' section can be - of course! - longer than one page in total. But on this one additional page, only references are allowed.

Authors may not modify these style files or use templates designed for other conferences. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review.

Double submissions and submissions of previously published work are not allowed for any of the paper types. All submissions must comply with the ACL responsible NLP research policy.